Re: libgpiod v0.1: C library and command-line tools for controlling GPIOs

[Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>]

2017-01-19 11:58 GMT+01:00 Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>:
> Bartosz Golaszewski,
>
> 2017-01-19 11:10 GMT+01:00 Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>:
>> 2017-01-19 10:34 GMT+01:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>:
>>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski
>>> <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to announce the first release of libgpiod. The project
>>>> consists of a C library and a set of command-line tools for
>>>> controlling GPIOs over the new character device interface.
>>>
>>> Nice!
>>>
>>> Have you thought about adding bindings for higher order
>>> languages etc that I think can make GPIO programming a bliss?
>>>
>>
>> I have thought about soooo many things I could do, but the problem is
>> - as usual - time I can devote to this project. ;) Anyways: I'll
>> welcome any contribution, so if you'll happen to have some time to do
>> it, I'll surely include it.
>>
>>> I created some for Control Groups at a point, using ctypes:
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/cgfreak/code/ci/master/tree/pylibcgroup.py
>>>
>>
>> FYI check out libsigrok - it generates python bindings from C++ using
>> swig - maybe this would be a good approach to decrease the amount of
>> work needed.
>
> I'd really like to help here, I have a bit of previous experience with
> python bindings to c and I don't think it's a tremendous amount of
> work.
> I'm planning to fork your project next weeks and trying to do something!
>

Great! I'll try to find some time to work on C++ bindings then.

Thanks,
Bartosz